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Poetical Works of Robert Bridges excluding the eight dramas

Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930)

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Prometheus the Firegiver
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DEMETER
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Eros & Psyche
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Shorter Poems
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BOOK I
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BOOK II
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BOOK IV
  
[dedication]
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5 LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY, 1890
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6 APRIL, 1885
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13 THE WINDMILL
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30 LAUS DEO
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BOOK V
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New Poems
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Later Poems
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Poems in Classical Prosody
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October & OTHER POEMS
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New Verse
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Two Pieces

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[When my love was away]

When my love was away,
Full three days were not sped,
I caught my fancy astray
Thinking if she were dead,
And I alone, alone:
It seemed in my misery
In all the world was none
Ever so lone as I.
I wept; but it did not shame
Nor comfort my heart: away
I rode as I might, and came
To my love at close of day.
The sight of her stilled my fears,
My fairest-hearted love:
And yet in her eyes were tears:
Which when I questioned of,
O now thou art come, she cried,
'Tis fled: but I thought to-day
I never could here abide,
If thou wert longer away.
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